I hope the story of that ad gets over quick and the ad doesn't run. This will backfire. Why would you keep reminding people of "Kerry's Strength". Use his record to attack him. These idiots are going to get Kerry elected. Take this money and mention his vote against body armour for our troops. This will be more effective.
Also when they mention Vietnam in should mention "we honor his 4 months of service in Vietnam." Remind people subtley it was only 4 months.
IF the swifties are telling the truth, then it needs to be said. Let the chips fall where they may.
You seem to have bought into the Democrap spin that this ad is to be laid at the feet of GW, or that he has the ability to stop it even if he wanted to.
Why not give some credibility to the idea that these guys are genuinely pissed off that a scumbag - a scumbag known to them - is aspiring to become Commander-in-Chief?
And I, like many others, don't see the promulgation of truth as a "backfire".
This ad will not "backfire" - it will ignite a "brushfire" of grassroots indignation.
"Kerry's Strength," as you put it, ISN'T "his strength" once it is demonstrably shown (as these brave vets have risked so very much to do) that it is all premised upon a damnable, contemptible lie. Using your own "logic": if "Kerry's Strength" happened to be a media-complicit claim that he was The Returned Son of God, we couldn't argue against that, either.
Either this country is worth fighting for, or it isn't. A loss in '04 is unthinkable. Help, by all means, if either of those two sentiments stirs anything whatsoever within you... or move off to one side, and try not discouraging the others.
"the idiots"as you called them have payed with their blood and their service! They have every right to make this adv.Nobody is complaining about the lies in the Dems 527's!